Hi everyone. One of my players, a level 11 sarenite cloistered cleric, she wants to resurrect a mutilated NPC. She knows the Resurrect ritual, but at their level she cannot cast the Heightened 7th version who grants the creation of a new body.
At base level, Resurrect "requires the target’s body to be present and **relatively intact**". The NPC was mutilated by a devil, who "deattach" the arms and legs as a torture, and finally he kills the NPC. Now, the NPC is a dead corpse without arms and limbs, but their head and organs are intact.
It is possible to resurrect that NPC with a basic 5-6th level of the ritual? My opinion is yes, but unfortunately the resurrected NPC cannot reattach the mutilated limbs (an imaginative solution: cast augmented spell "gentle repose" to limbs and, in the future, cast Regenerate spell to reattach the mutilated limbs).
Opinions?
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Should be a call between both the GM and the player of that character. I don't want to resurrect the topic of a thread that was closed and locked for good reason - but in general terms, the GM shouldn't be imposing big character choices on the player like that if the player isn't on board with it. Consent is a hill worth dying on.
Breit,
It sounds like the character in question is a NPC, so there's isn't an issue of player consent here that I see.
As for the character with a mutilated body...I would suggest someone with medical skill reattaching the limbs as best they can. Cast resurrection, the limbs probably don't function well, but are gaping holes either. I imagine the character needing like a wheel chair and being unable to lift things weight more than L bulk. Later the character can get a regeneration effect to remove those penalties.
I think it's a nice compromise that way.